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[NickFitz]

Monkey Life and other wildlife stuff was on to brighten the afternoon

And later, I finished reading Crooked Heart. Another excellent book by Lissa Evans. I’ve got a couple more of hers to read, but I may take a break to read something else first. Or I may not

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

The bed was made after dinner so there'll be no last minute shenanigans.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been brought to me from the nearby East African place

[ladymuck]

All bed linen has been washed. Enough of it has dried that it can go straight back onto the bed. Not that I've done that part yet.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s sunny out, with high wispy cloud here and there, and already at the day’s high of 19°C which is expected to persist until teatime. The barometers seem cautiously optimistic, being up a little at 1010/1018mB

The chestnut tree out the back and the huge sycamore in next door’s garden out the front are getting into their colour-changing phase; it started on a small scale a while ago, but they seem to have decided it’s time to go full steam ahead with it now

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with occasional wisps. Currently 19 degrees with a high of 21 expected. Cloud cover set to increase by late afternoon. Barometer up to 1024 mBar.

Sunrise 06:54; Sunset 18:51 BST

The bed has been stripped and is airing. First load in the WM. Might not get it all washed and dried today.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

18.8 deg in here, 19.2 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto, 11 out the back.

1016.5 mBar, 30.02 in Hg, 762.4 Torr, 14.743 psi, (up from 1015 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of April 2020, between 09:31 and 12:00, as per yesterday.

Now in full throes of manflu: dreadful night's sleep augmented by some lunes shooting on the marsh since about 06:00 or so. Poor old ducks getting decimated at a guess.

I can't remember the last time I caught a cold.

Entertainment Yng Nghymraeg: Tredegar House. Another monument to the oppressors of the working class. . The bastards.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine with occasional shotgun accompaniments. Two conversations.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: last bit of The News Quiz, 13 o'clock news.

Flipping bangers: Reliant Kitten: or how to put a box of ill assorted bits together when you don't know WTF some of it came from: Fox chassis, Kitten bits, unknown diff, etc. etc. Its MOT ran out in 2019 & it's SORN.

Last 10 minutes or so of "Anzio (1968)" wherein Robert Mitchum plays the role of dear old Wynford Vaughn-Thomas who was actually there as a war correspondent. Well there's tidy then, boyo. Shades of U571 in spades. And almost everything else the septics put out, though this was an Italian American de Laurentis production.

Some minor gardening undertaken: ivy. The burn pile gets ever higher.

Tea: soup etc. Enlivened by another piece of tooth falling off. Getting rather fed up with this now.

Entertainment: PM. It'd be nice if the mouthy presenter would STFU & let others talk a little.

The Robinson interview thing: Paul Greengrass, film maker. All about The Peasant's Revolt film he's just made & its reflections on current events.

Maigret "Shadow Play (1961)".

How the Nazis lost the war: they were ruled by a lunatic. Next.

Blazian bollox: World War Weird: 'Itler and the Spear of Destiny (the one they allegedly stuck into Christ as he hung on the cross). The Battle of the Beams with R.V. Jones et al. The Other Goering brother, being Albert Goering who helped numerous Jewish people during WWII. Porton Down & the way they killed test subjects. Testing various supposedly innocuous agents (ZnCdS and some bug) to what might happen if the real stuff was used. Some of said agents proved to be rather less innocuous than originally thought.

Blazian bollox: the Panama invasion wherein the septics invade Panama again. It gets habit forming. .

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s motion picture premiere was Crawl (2019) in which a young lady and her father find a way to patch up their fractured relationship by dint of being trapped in the underfloor crawlspace of their Florida home with more than one alligator during a Cat-5 hurricane and the floods attendant thereon. It’s all a bit bitey, as one might expect, and none the worse for that. Apparently there’s a sequel due next year, and I expect - nay, demand - that the continuity people will have all the right scars in all the right places for such of the characters as are in it. There were only her and him left at the end anyway, so that doesn’t seem like too much to ask

And then a rewatch of Whiplash (2014) because it’s excellent; you don’t even have to be in to jazz to appreciate this one

Finally, not one but two episodes of Dark Matter (TV Series 2024– ) being S1E4 and S1E5. I’m less ambivalent about this now because it feels like it’s finally starting to go somewhere with its underlying concept. I reckoned from the fourth one that they should have squeezed all the stuff in the first three into E1, but E5 left me thinking that maybe it needed at least E1 and E2? I still think they could have moved the early stuff along faster, but at least it’s all coming together now

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

For tea, lamb steaks with chips and beans

This was accompanied by a new (to me, at least) thing on C4: Geordie Coppers

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a Pukka sausage roll

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Started off cloudy but now there's blue sky and wispy fluff. Currently 21 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 22 expected. Barometer down to 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 06:52; Sunset 18:53 BST

Lots of deliveries coming this morning as my brother and I decided some cameras and one of those video doorbells needed to be installed to help keep Mum safe. HWMBO recommended Ubiquiti kit so that means he's charged with helping to set it up.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey sort of day, but not in an ominously gloomy sort of way, and no rain is expected except maybe a shower or two later tonight. It’s sticking with the mild-but-not-hot theme too, being 16°C with an expected high of 19°; the barometers are creeping back down at 1007/1015mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Grey.

Rosy fingers of dawn & all that.

19.5 deg in here, 20.2 in the kitchen, 18.5 in the leanto, 16 out the back.

1012.5 mBar, 29.9 in Hg, 759.4 Torr, 14.69 psi, (down from 1014 last night), 69% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of April 2020, between 09:31 and 12:00, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, PhilTheGreek, and I popped in, along with yet more plague Good News and Idiocy.

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country. Fly fishing after the drought. A Vet assessing a horse. Hargreaves experience of dissecting horses whilst training as a vet in the 1930s.

It's recently rained a little. .

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked initially in grey gloom, then in sunshine. Took a brolly just in case, which successfully prevented the rain returning in much the same way that my elephant trap works.

The canal is well on the way to empty above Tonna lock.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: The Food Programme waffling on about shortages and price spikes.

Dashcam bollox. S3 E something or other that I've watched before. Several times. Well it's mindless so it suits me down to the ground these days in my increasingly mindless state. .

I have a cold. I suspect I caught it off my next door neighbour on Wednesday when we discussed brambles, coal mines, canals, & the like.

The haematoma on my palate is still going strong.

More brambles hacked & removed. The pile becomes ever taller & longer. Should be impressive by Nov 5th. :.

Alaska Homestead Rescue thingie: Hawaii: Kaiai. Goodness me, homestead owned by Graham Nash's (yes that one) estranged son & daughter in law. It's a bit wet. Another homestead in a bog/marsh/swamp (*delete where applicable) in a hook in a stream that turns into a raging torrent quite frequently. Added attractions: wild pigs doing wild piggy sorts of things such as eating everything in sight, and an invasive grass, plus invasive African trees. Whereas yesterday's epic spent a lot of time on slugs & rat lung disease, this one never mentioned it.

Tea: chilli con carne etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. The News Quiz.

Bab5 S4 E13 "Rumours, Bargains, and Lies". The Membari warrior caste are getting uppity.

Thing about Tyrone France whose burned body was found in a wood near Newport, Gwent.

Taggart S17 E3 "Wavelength". Radio waves. Stone me, that one was confusing.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s motion picture premiere was 6 Days (2017), a dramatisation of the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980, mainly about the SAS’s role. I read Ben Macintyre’s book on the subject fairly recently, and on that basis I’d say it stayed pretty close to the facts. But obviously they have to make it into a film people enjoy watching, which means changing a few things; which is why it's a dramatisation, not a documentary

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Just popped over to the bins with a couple of bags of recycling I felt were above and beyond what I can reasonably expect the servants management company people to deal with when they come round collecting in the morning, there having been a few items of printing equipment delivered in recent weeks that came with a lot of cardboard by way of packaging. It’s very nice out there, and not at all chilly even though I was in a t-shirt. I should go out and get some fresh air more often